Keyless lock



A. BODNAR.

KEYLESS LOCK.

APPLICATloN FILED miv/10,1919.

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ANTHONY BOIDNAR, F GRND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

KEYLESS LOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 17, 1920.

Application filed May 10, 1919. Serial No. 296,265.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ANTHONY BODNAR, a subject ot Galicia, with rst papers as a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Keyless Locks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in keyless locks, made of diierent combination and arrangements of wire construction, and its objects are: first, to provide a lock that when upon an article may not be opened by anyone not acquainted with the combination and the manner of manipulating the parts; second, to provide for making dierent combinations of structure for diierent locks; third, to provide for making different combinations of structure in the same lock.

I attain these objects by the mechanism and construction of parts shown in the accompanying` drawing, in which I have shown two different combinations, and in which Figure l is an elevation of one construction known as the double ring construction. Fig. 2 is the second element in the construction of these locks, an element common in one form or another in all my locks. Fig. 3 is an elevation of another form of lock. Fig. 4 is a plan of the three elements, constituting two different locks, assembled together. Fig. 5 is a plan of the lock shown in Fig. l, showing Vvhow the same may be locked and unlocked. Fig. 6 is a like view of the lock shown in Fig. 8, with the same purpose in view, and Fig. 7 is a plan of the ring that is designed to cut ott the loop from the body opening of the secondary part of the locks.

Similar reference numerals indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

In describing the two forms of lock shown in the accompanying drawing Fig. l shows the main coil or ring l as having a small loop 3 at each end, the ends passing each other and the rings 5 and 6 passing simply through the loops without passing around, or having any relation to the main loop or ring 1, and the ring 4 passes around the two ends of the main loop between the end loops and the rings 5 and 6. In this case the loop 7, on the part 2, is passed through the ring 4, (either with or without the ring 8 in place) and the ring 5 is passed through said loop 7, as indicated in Fig. 5. If the ring 8 is not in place the loop l may be carried around into the body of the loop 2, as the loop l shows in Fig. 4, but if the ring 8 is in place the loop l must remain in the loop 7. Where more than one loop, as l or l', are placed upon loop 2 one or more of them may be passed on into the main part of the loop 2 and the others may be confined to the loop 7, or two or more may be conined to the loop 7, as indicated by the solid lilies l and the dotted lines 9, in Fig. 4.

Coming now to a description of the lock shown in Fig. 3, it will be noted that the ring 6', which corresponds with the ring 6 in Fig. l, passes through the end loop of the main loop l', and then around the other end of said main loop, and the ring 4 encircles both ends of the main loop, thus making it necessary to pass the loop 7 through both rings, 6 and 4, when assembling or disconnecting the parts, and then to pass the ring 5, and the end of the loop 1, through the loop 7, as indicated in Fig. 6.

It will be readily understood :trom the two descriptions and the illustrations above given, that many variations may be made in this class of locks without varying materially in the mechanical construction, and without departing from my invention as herein described and claimed, though a detailed description of each different combination or form of construction would render the specification unnecessarily tedious and complex, hence I am coniining myself to these simple forms.

The ring -8 really indicates the article locked between the main loop l and the secondary loop 2, as a ring upon the end of a chain, say a boat chain or a dog chain, or other similar article.

vWhat I claim as new in the art, is:

1. In a keyless lock, a main loop having a small loop at each end, a ring passed through each small loop, a ring encircling the ends of the main loop between the end rings, and a secondary endless loop made to coperate with the rings on the main loop and pass the main loop Within the secondary the main loop between the rings in the large loop. loop, and a seconda@TI endless loop arranged 2. In a koylesslock, a main loopnhaving a to engage with the several rings and pass 10 small loop at each,vv end, a yringv passed the main loop Within the Secondary loop. 5 through each of the' small loops with one 'of vSigned at Grand Rapids',l Michigan, May

said rings passing around the end of the 6,1919. large loop, a ring encircling both ends of ANTHONY BODNAR. 

